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AMD's Threadripper 2 TR 2990WX will be available for retail on August 13. The CPU has 32 cores and the suggested retail price is $1,799, compared to $1,999 for Intel's 18-core i9-7980XE. A 24-core TR 2970WX will be available in October for $1,299.
The 16-core TR 2950X ($899, August 31) and 12-core TR 2920X ($649, October) replace their counterparts from the last generation of Threadripper CPUs, but have slightly improved "12nm" Zen+ cores like the other Threadripper 2 CPUs. The 16 and 12-core chips use 2 dies while the 24 and 32-core versions use 4 dies.
A benchmark leak shows the 32-core TR 2990WX outperforming Intel's 18-core i9-7980XE by 53% in the multithreaded Cinebench R15 (this is an early result, may not represent the final performance, and may be overly favorable to AMD).
Also at Tom's Hardware and Engadget.
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(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Tuesday August 07 2018, @06:39PM
My electric is $0.11 per kwh so I save even more by the switch. But when you jump from an older processor to a new one it gets expensive quickly. I need to replace the motherboard, CPU, and memory. And while SSDs are more energy efficient, they're not cheap. I have SSDs for all of my boot drives but the data is on spinning rust drives for cost reasons.